Definitions from Wiktionary (chain shift)
▸ noun: (linguistics, phonology) A phonological modification of a vowel system in which a change in a particular vowel causes other adjacent vowels to also change in order to avoid vowel mergers.
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▸ noun: (linguistics, phonology) A phonological modification of a vowel system in which a change in a particular vowel causes other adjacent vowels to also change in order to avoid vowel mergers.
Similar:
shifter,
lengthening,
soft mutation,
labiodentalization,
stem mutation,
intervocalization,
prop vowel,
i-mutation,
schwa deletion,
umlaut,
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